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We had a full room for our presentation, What THEY See Is What YOU Get: Modeling Positive Behaviors! 

I started by providing some background, covering the critical topics of Intentional Instruction and and Visual and Contextual Learning. Camille's Team, the I See I Learn story about cooperation, was used to demonstrate teaching social and emotional skills with intent—with specific goals in mind—and utilizing strategies so that young children see and understand how the skills work and can be applied in their own lives.

Susan Fahey, director of a terrific Pre-K near Chicago called the Children’s Care and Development Center (CCDC),  followed by showing those kinds of activities in practice. Through videos, her teachers talked about the power of storybooks to model social and emotional skills, and specifically of the effectiveness of the I See I Learn at School program. Then, we saw video of young students acting out stories, role playing, talking about their favorite characters and describing the skills they had learned.

The session ended with an active Q+A and a plan of action for putting the main points that were presented into action. It was a full, fun-filled hour!